The Tsarist/Soviet Empires and the History of Modernity in Asia

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The Tsarist/Soviet Empires and the History of Modernity in Asia

Veranstalter
Prof. Dr. Andreas Renner, Professor for Russian-Asian Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich; Helena Holzberger, PhD student at the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
Veranstaltungsort
Library of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, Maria-THeresia Str. 21
Ort
Munich
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
12.09.2017 - 13.09.2017
Website
http://www.gs-oses.de/event-detail-317/events/conference-munich-the-tsaristsoviet-empires-and-the-history-of-modernity-in-asia.html
Von
Andreas Alexandrou, Russland/Asienstudien, Ludwig Maximilians Universität

What influence did the Tsarist/Soviet empire have on the modernisation of Asia and vice versa? What political and revolutionary dimensions does modernisation contain? What does ‘sovietization’ mean? How were ideas about modernisation spread, thought about and applied? What are the processes that dominate the exchange of knowledge and expertise that make up modernisation? What consequences do they have for today’s postsocialist space? The conference seeks to examine entanglements between Tsarist/Soviet and Asian modernities since the late 19th century. In Eurasia, Russia’s rise to great power status anticipated Japan’s (or later, China’s and India’s) transformation from an object of European expansion to a competitive, ‘modern’ rival. In postwar Asia (notions of) modernity were not only influenced by the ‘Western’ model, but also and, arguably, even stronger by developments in the Soviet Union (China and Japan). Though the history of modernities in Asia cannot, of course, be reduced to Tsarist/Soviet influences, they may provide a starting point to the analysis of modernity beyond its Western shape.

Programm

Tuesday, 12 September 2017

13:00-13:30
Welcome & Introduction

13:30-17:00
Panel I: Transfers & Learning

Federico Brusadelli, Rome
The Tsar’s Mirror. The “Account of the Reforms of Peter the Great” by Kang Youwei (1858-1927). A Russian Model to Save the Chinese Empire

Rotem Kowner, Haifa
Overlooking the Obvious: The Tsarist and Soviet Impact on the Japanese Quest for Modernity of State and Empire

(ca. 14:30-15:00 Tea & Coffee)

Joonseo Song, Seoul
The Role of Russia in the Modernization of Korea during the early 20th Century

Natalia Ryzhova, Vladivostok
China as Source for the Russian Far East Modernization

16:00-17:00
Discussion
Discussant: Moritz Florin, Erlangen

18:00-20:00
Evening Lecture

Ronald G. Suny, Chicago/Ann Arbor
Modernizing Imperialisms: The Making and Breaking of
Nations in the Tsarist and Soviet Empires

20:00-21:00
Reception

Wednesday, 13 September 2017

9:30-12:00
Panel II: Knowledge & Technology

Markku Kangaspuro, Helsinki
Mapping Soviet Modernisation

Shuxi Yin, Hefei
Sovietization of Engineering Education in China

(ca. 10:30-11 Tea & Coffee)

Sandy Xu, Berlin
Who were the Peasantry in the Soviet Union and Maoist China?

Greg Bankoff, Hull
What Happened to the Second World? Dealing with Earthquakes in Postsocialist Kazakhstan

12:00-13:00
Discussion
Discussant: Sören Urbansky, Cambridge/Munich

14:30-16:00
Panel III: Agency & Theory

Elke Hartmann, Munich
To the People - to the Women! Russian Inspirations for Ottoman Armenian Revolutionaries

Anastasia Fedorova, Moscow
Marxist Historiography and Media in 1950s Japan

(ca. 15:30-16:00 Tea & Coffee)

Milinda Banerjee, Munich/Kolkata
Modernity and the Ambivalent Place of the Political: Dialectical Responses of Bengali Naxalite Revolutionaries to Soviet and other Transnational Communist Visions, ca. 1969-74

16:30-17:30
Discussion
Discussant: Helena Holzberger, Munich

18:00-19:00
Roundtable with Stefan Plaggenborg (Bochum), Andreas Renner (Munich), Joonseo Song (Seoul), Ronald G. Suny (Chicago/Ann Arbor), David Wolff (Sapporo)
Discussant: Frank Grüner, Bielefeld

20:30 Conference Dinner

Kontakt

Kornelia Hohenadler
Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies
Maria-Theresia-Straße 21, 81675 Munich

kornelia.hohenadler@lrz.uni-muenchen.de

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